Originally Posted by Jreip76
My friend just did a motor swap in his 94 LS. Got a JDM B16A and mated it to his LS tranny. The car is still quick and the motor's vtec point is about 5200 I think, when shifted at 8k it doesnt drop out of vtec on the next shift. He chose to do this pretty much for cash reasons. With a vtec tranny it would obviously get off the line a little faster but right now it's not by anymeans slow. It's 170hp on a ls tranny. If a LS integra is given an extra 30 hp it would still go pretty good.
you got horsepower and torque mixed up. A car can have a million horsepower and 1 ftlb of torque and you would be able to crawl faster then it until it finally got going. The more torque a car has, the faster it is during acceleration. The more horsepower a car has, the higher speeds it can go. Back to the tranny deal, you may want to buy a tranny for now that will allow you to drive the car and later get a shorter ratio tranny. Just a suggestion.